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Sun July 20, 2008
(io9) Interesting Five ways reality caught up to science fiction this century. Number five does too count (89)
(Financial Times) Unlikely Sony sets sales goal for PS3 at 150m units. After nearly two years they are barely 10% of the way there (118)
(ohgizmo) Cool Bodycount of Halo 3 exceeds the population of earth. Tron seeking to import alien life for the next round (58)
(The Industry Standard) Interesting Maybe banning the booth babes from the E3 gaming conference wasn't such a good idea, after all (129)
(Science Blog) Obvious Study finds coffee and cigarette consumption are high among Alcoholics Anonymous attendees (55)
(Reuters) Interesting Scientitsts determine that the Easter Bunny is now a polynesian god (21)
(Guardian.com) Scary Hi-tech distractions cause chronic time-wast - hang on, lemme go check my email, texts, Flickr, Facebook, Myspace and RSS feeds before submitting this headline (58)
(Wikipedia) Cool Happy Moon Landing Day everyone (Why isn't this an international public holiday?) (97)
(PhysOrg.com) Spiffy An explanation for altruism in society. Here comes the math (34)
(Denver Post) Interesting A look at the technology upgrades being performed at the Pepsi Center for the Democratic convention. Network will have capacity to run phone and Internet service to the equivalent of 220,000 homes, 100,000 if Bill is downloading his porn (27)
(Telegraph) Cool Coolest pics you'll see today of a hungry leopard and fearsome crocodile. "It just doesn't make sense. The meat you get out of a crocodile is just not worth the risk." (warning: pics of lep-on-croc violence) (133)
(Bangor Daily News) Scary That lobster you eat today could make you sick tomalley (85)
(Engadget) Interesting Quick blurb on quantum computing Quick blurb on quantum computing (16)

Sat July 19, 2008
(Engadget) Interesting Intel celebrates its 40.00000013th birthday (44)
(London Times) Interesting And that's your Great great great great great great ... great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandparents barbecuing uncle Henry (20)
(USA Today) Cool Jimi Hendrix is coming to Guitar Hero. Consumers must supply their own lighter fluid, matches, and brown acid (54)
(CBC) Cool Miniature snowmobile robots could roam glaciers collecting data on melting polar glaciers, build Sara Connor snowmen (12)
(Some Guy) Interesting Tata - the Indian manufacturers of the worlds cheapest car now bring you the air powered production car. 300 kilometer range, $2 to fill. Governments now determining how to tax air (99)
(Kotaku) Asinine Nintendo is "thinking" about raping your wallet for a new set of updated Wii remotes (75)
(Live Science) Interesting Human speech traced to talking fish. Charlie the Tuna wanted for questioning (31)
(STLToday) Unlikely $4+ gas is making it cool to own a scooter again (128)
(Wired) Interesting Interesting stat of the day: Except for the US as a whole, California alone uses more transportation fuel than any country in the world, even China. Also, California gas usage has increased by 50% since 1988 (67)
(London Times) Interesting Scientists say the louder the music the faster you drink. I'd have a funnier headline, but ish too hard to hear in here. "Here here." Dash funny. Y'know what yer prooblem is? I'll tell yer what yer prolbem ish, pal (38)
(InfoWorld) Followup The real story on the San Francisco municipal network "Hostage Situation". Followup narrowly defeats Asinine (34)

Fri July 18, 2008
(Wired) Sick Environmentalists have recently shown / What rednecks have long known / Eating a pigeon / Could help earth just a smidgen / After all, they are locally grown (39)
(London Times) Unlikely "Richard Dawkins is that rare specimen, a public intellectual, a knight of the mind who goes into battle against the ignorance and foolhardiness of the populace" (258)
(Jalopnik) Spiffy 2010 Camaro finally "officially" revealed. Cue 3 months of excitement followed by 15 years of secretaries and high-school kids driving them recklessly (71)
(The New Yorker) Sad Get off my $40 billion lawn (41)
(Wired) Interesting 300 people wanted to re-attempt Mythbusters Archimedes death ray again... For the third time. People with giant moustaches and berets need not apply (50)
(Discovery) Misc Archeological dig reveals 18th century New Orleans. Because you can't see any 18th century buildings or decor anywhere in New Orleans at all (21)
(News.com.au) Interesting American Physical Society sails to the edge of the world and debunks anthropogenic warming (104)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Obvious Who's watching "Family Guy" on Hulu? A bunch of dudes (59)
(some pirate) Ironic You're Ubisoft and your video game doesn't work, do you: A) get your programmers to fix the problem, or B) Download the pirate's crack and release it as the 'Official Patch?' (64)
(Discovery) Interesting Scientists describe how to create an invisible carpet, so when your cat drops its invisible sandwich you won't have to worry about people seeing the invisible stain (9)
(BBC) Spiffy Scan detects OCD. They wouldn't have found out about it but the guy administering the scan had OCD and he kept doing it over and over and over and over again (3)
(Reuters) Dumbass GoDaddy offers .me domain name registration. But they didn't think their cunning plan through (71)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Interesting Never mind this Yahoo business: Microsoft's real problem is the second coming of Apple (59)
(The Register) Amusing After calling OpenBSD developers "masturbating monkeys", Linus Torvalds refers to Digg users as "wanking walruses". Next up: "fapping Farkers" (36)
(Fox News) Cool General Motors researchers are working on a windshield that combines lasers, infrared sensors and a camera to give old people's cars F-16 like capabilities. Targeting farm markets and crowds will be easier than ever (38)
(Telegraph) Interesting Scientists find why we need to re-read a page. Scientists find why we need to re-read a page (21)
(Bangor Daily News) Spiffy Teen boy gets a robotic hand. Assures doctors it will get a workout two, three, maybe four times a day (43)
(Telegraph) Weird How to build your very own 17ft cardboard Gandhi, you know, just in case you want to (29)
(Wired) Sick Olympians: On your mark, get set, cough (41)
(NASA) Cool Coolest pics/video of the Earth and moon from 31 million miles away that you'll see all week (35)

Thu July 17, 2008
(Slashdot) Interesting Humans have intellgently designed more creatures in Spore than exist in real life (86)
(Aint-It-Cool-News) Cool Q: Who watches The Watchmen? A: Whoever has YouTube (175)
(IMDB) Unlikely Story the media is suppressing: Apparently there are 134 people in "The Dark Knight" who are NOT Heath Ledger in ANY WAY (72)
(Some Guy) Interesting Jesus H. Tap-Dancing Christ: "Iron Man" has passed the half-billion dollar mark (69)
(The Industry Standard) Unlikely The Business Software Alliance says that if you didn't pirate Microsoft Office, there would be more cops on the streets (39)
(Mercury News) Followup Sony lowers price on PS3 from "Oh, hell no" to "Meh, I'll stick with a Wii for now" (148)
(Ars Technica) Scary Christian radio warns FCC that "local community standards" rule could force them to take programming advice from morans who don't believe that Earth is 6000 years old, Jesus rode dinosaurs or gays are destined for hell (111)
(Themovieblog) Asinine New live-action "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" movie in the works and set to be released in 2010. Vanilla Ice said to be overwhelmed with excitment at the prospect of potential employment (67)
(C|Net) Interesting Apple must win its case against Psystar -- or else something really bad will happen: People will buy the same hardware at much lower prices (232)
(Slashdot) Amusing Just when you thought the SCO case couldn't get any stranger, a man who has previously sued The Thirteen Tribes of Israel, 'Various Buddhist Monks,' Mein Kampf and Plato offers to take over the case (26)
(Some Blogger) Followup Dallas commissioner adds "blogs" to his list of stuff he doesn't understand. Bonus: He's on the I.T. committee (44)
(Labspaces.net) Obvious Scientists announce a new way to weigh black holes. Expect protests from Dallas Commisioner John Wiley Price any day now (106)
(BBC) Interesting The Gamecube sold 22 million consoles in seven years. The Wii has sold 28 million consoles in two years. It appears Nintendo has found the solution to its console woes: Not sucking (213)
(BBC) Video Brits are excited watching German beavers get some beaver (video news story) (9)

Wed July 16, 2008
(The Industry Standard) Amusing Microsoft reaches for a life preserver, can't reach; decides to grab the anchor (36)
(Healthfinder) Sad Researchers determine that breast self exams don't cut cancer deaths, point out that watching softcore porn can no longer be claimed as medical research (17)
(Some Guy) Interesting NASA Director claims China might win moon race. Now, if only NASA hadn't faked that first landing (55)
(CBC) Obvious Stephen Hawking to remain at rest, as he has not been acted upon by an external force (44)
(Some Pathologists) Interesting Scientists have discovered HIV's weak spot, finding a very effective way to kill the virus. Still no cure for..what's next on the list, boys? (124)
(Ars Technica) Interesting Break out your rollerblades and house music: Hackers are back (69)
(Google) Amusing ʇxǝʇ uʍopǝpısdn ǝsn sɹǝʇsʞuɐɹd ʇǝuɹǝʇuı pǝllıʞs (76)
(Network World) Dumbass 1-800-Flowers.com employee is fired after her e-mail account is used to send a death threat to a critic of creationism. Guess there was no way to say it with flowers (347)
(ABC News) Amusing Apple apologizes for rocky MobileMe launch, but not for Butch, he's just awesome (15)
(PhysOrg.com) Scary Plutonium spill causes reassessment of training regimen, flux capacitor design (24)
(Fox News) Cool The coolest pictures of Mars you'll see today (19)
(Kotaku) Cool Jack Bauer to travel through time and star in the upcoming "Call of Duty 5" (45)
(Gizmodo) Spiffy Greatest. Birthday cake. Ever (88)
(AP) Obvious NASA internal memo about urine is promptly leaked to the press (62)
(Sun Sentinel) Dumbass Much like his correct forecast percentages, hurricane predictor William Grey says global warming effects are "grossly exaggerated" (103)
(Guardian.com) Ironic Microsoft concerned that the Google-Yahoo deal would reduce competition (18)
(AP) Interesting Ethanol from corn is killing the Gulf of Mexico. Damn you, Al Gore (46)
(Wired) Interesting Sixty-three years ago today, Oppenheimer became death, the destroyer of worlds (121)
(CNN) Amusing "ZOMG Jzuz iz r3ly kewl. XO BXVI" (19)
(Live Science) Interesting Study suggest that a television on in the background causes young children to... HEY, "Golden Girls" is on (20)
(The Register) Interesting Never, ever stick it in until it is fully hardened. If you don't, you'll only last about four minutes (37)
(MSNBC) Cool Google will be allowed to remove IP addresses and user names before submitting viewing records to Viacom. So don't worry, no one will know how many times you've been rickrolled (23)

Tue July 15, 2008
(Seattle Times) Scary Seattle Times web ads may have served up a virus. It's not news, it's DO YOU WANT TO SATISFY YOUR WOMAN? (16)
(EON) Spiffy News: Prostate cancer drug can prevent bone loss. Fark: The photo in the article (scroll down to prostate story) (115)
(Yahoo) Obvious Scientist find gene that predisposes young men to violence, Oddly, it's not Wranglers (28)
(InfoWorld) Amusing Intel: Some users spend more time with their laptops than their wives, so it was important to include better entertainment options on Centrino 2 laptops (15)
(Houston Chronicle) Cool Under the Freedom of Information Act, the FAA was forced to release radar information to UFO hunters showing a 1,000 foot long aircraft without transponders traveling 2,100 mph, making impossible maneuvers. It's not a streetlight (135)
(Some Guy) Dumbass Cornell University identifies the two major crises facing the world. 1: Global climate change. 2: No one really knows anything about how global climate works. Wait, what? (25)
(iF Magazine) Strange The 10 characters you might see in "Hellboy 3" - be prepared, this one gets obscure (80)
(ZDNet) Obvious To the surprise of ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, Apple files lawsuit against Mac-clone maker Psystar for copyright infringement (102)
(Some Guy) Interesting Exercise amps up Alzheimer's brain. Bonus: You lose count and wind up doing three times as many jumping jacks as you intended (15)
(Some Guy) Weird Twenty examples of geek graffiti and tattoos. Strongbad tramp-stamp noticeably absent (125)
(Canada.com) PSA Women who consume peanuts while pregnant may increase the chances of their offspring having asthma. Peanuts (14)
(The New York Times) Weird Old and busted: gay penguins. New, um, hotness: tranny orchids (17)
(Geek.com) Interesting A tour of Panasonic's Toughbook testing facility. It's like an Abu Ghraib for laptops. (w/vid) (17)
(The Register) Cool Get your very own frakkin Battlestar Galactica toaster. Frakkin want (50)
(SFGate) Amusing Disgruntled computer engineer highjacks network, locks city administrators out of system. Add some topless chicks and a ridiculously violent chase scene or two and this would make a great plot for a mediocre movie (192)
(Washington Post) Spiffy Team of scientific super-women invents healthier hamburgers and sausages (18)
(Some USMC Major) Obvious Jarhead returns from Iraq pissed about military software and shares it with the world: "Military software - by and large - sucks" (76)
(Computerworld) Stupid 75% of UK companies ban instant messaging. 20% not sure what IM is and the remaining 15% ROFL (34)
(Engadget) Stupid Bluetooth handgun handset: iGiveUp (19)
(Canoe) Cool Guess who's revamping their space program by developing new rockets for lunar expeditions? Hint: It ends in A, and doesn't start with C. Or R (95)
(Some Guy) Obvious Old people would like you punks to stay the hell off their lawns and stop putting those damn self-serve checkout machines in supermarkets (87)
(Newsweek) Unlikely Oil shale deposits in the American Rockies could provide America oil for the next 400 years (102)
(News.com.au) Spiffy Scientists find solution to cancer: teenage sex. Well, it works for Tasmanian Devils, but as soon as we can make it work for humans there'll be some Nobel Prizes handed out (24)
(Wired) Spiffy Final Fantasy XIII to also be released on Xbox 360 and Play Station 3. Thanks for playing Sony (163)
(LA Times) Obvious High fructose corn syrup introduced in the early 1970s. Obesity epidemic takes off in the early 1970s. Groovy (94)

Mon July 14, 2008
(Pitchfork) Spiffy Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., Bikini Kill, The Replacements, Elvis Costello: it's not your mix tape, it's the Rock Band 2 set list (95)
(Reuters) Obvious Food marketed at kids found to have "poor nutrition value" by the N.S. Sherlock Institute (16)
(MSNBC) Spiffy Cars will soon have the ability to drive themselves, making the horrible Volvo driver a thing of the past (39)
(Some Guy) Interesting You can't write your own stories involving other authors' characters, so Mr. Spock probably won't meet Dumbledore (65)
(PhysOrg.com) Interesting Multithreaded supercomputer seeks software for data-intensive computing, greenlighting (15)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Obvious Netflix's streaming movie selection leaves you hungry for Ronco Rotisserie infomercials, or anything really (39)
(Breitbart.com) Interesting NASA engineers upset at the agency's new manned rocket project work on a competing design in their spare time. Funding for the alternative provided by an industrialist, Mr. D. Harriman (65)
(Network World) Amusing I do not like green eggs and LAN (13)
(London Times) Unlikely Nicotine might actually be good for you. Put that in your pipe and smoke it (44)
(The Register) Dumbass Chinese hacker who hacked through backdoor of Red Cross website to intercept deposits for earthquake victims sentenced to two years of taking deposits through the backdoor (30)
(AFP) Interesting The world's forests are threatened by food, fuel demands, Ewok infestation (92)
(BBC) Interesting Sleeping well may boost your memory. In other news, sleeping well may boost your memory (19)
(ComicMix) Wheaton Interview with writer Wil Wheaton (44)
(Gizmodo) Video Robot does "evolution" dance better than human, dances with Sarah Conner, provides strong lead (43)
(Scientific American) Amusing Why Batman could exist -- but not for long (92)
(The Register) Obvious If you receive an Instant message from chunkylover53@aol.com, be aware that it's not actually from Homer Simpson (18)
(Gizmodo) Cool Finally, a lawn ornament that says "Get off my lawn" and is not guaranteed against Acts of Bruce Campbell (37)
(The Register) Asinine It takes a 56MB update to add five words to the dictionary in Windows Vista (42)
(The Register) Followup Thousands of Apple fanboys crushed that they still can't register their new iPhones three days on, while everyone else points and laughs (104)
(Some Einstein) Spiffy The periodic table in videos (38)
(MSNBC) Obvious Video game characters are getting smarter, will soon begin their search for Sarah Connor (59)

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